Chapter 446 Weird Girl (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)

New York's Madison Gardens, home of the NBA's New York Knicks.

Backed by the mega city of New York with more than 20 million people, the Knicks have a huge ball market.

The purchasing power of New York fans is also the highest in the league. This makes the Knicks have always been the most wealthy team in the league.

The salaries of players can easily exceed 100 million US dollars, the salary cap is exceeded every year, and they have to pay sky-high luxury taxes every year.

But the boss doesn't care, anyway, relying on New York's big market, the Knicks have plenty of money. Even Madison Square Garden is one of the best stadiums built in the league.

The only thing that makes New Yorkers unhappy is that the Knicks haven't won a championship for a long time. It's been so long that New Yorkers have forgotten when the last NBA championship parade was.

This also makes New York fans the most loyal and least loyal in the league.

They are said to be loyal because the Knicks' ball market is the most profitable among all NBA teams. No matter how bad the game is, there are always fans who are willing to pay to watch the Knicks game. Buy the jerseys of Knicks stars.

It is said that New York fans are the least loyal because as long as the visiting team plays a good game. Then the New York fans would applaud the visiting team, and even boo the Knicks players together when the Knicks did not perform well.

This kind of thing is not unheard of. So New York fans are arguably one of the most eccentric fan groups in the world.

Obviously the team is not playing well, and there are still people who spend a lot of money to watch the game. You must know that NBA tickets are not cheap, especially for the playoffs.

New York fans obviously feel uncomfortable watching the Knicks play, but they still go to the scene to watch the game to make themselves uncomfortable.

Maybe there is inertia in being abused? Getting used to being abused by the Knicks' results. In this regard, Knicks fans are similar to fans of the Chinese National Football Team.

Of course, Madison Gardens will not be idle during the NBA suspension.

Including the NBA Development League and the preseason games are always to be played. But these two games are too watery, and basically not many fans are willing to watch them.

Those who came to watch the game were either true fans, or because the tickets for the NBA main game were too expensive. Specially buy this cheap ticket to experience the fun of watching the game live.

However, compared with those developmental league games that are too watery, the National High School Summer League every summer is quite eye-catching.

In fact, in the United States, where basketball culture is quite developed. The competition level and intensity of the high school league can already be compared with many other national team competitions.

Especially the games after the quarterfinals are more enjoyable. Because of winning the honor of being the number one high school student in basketball in the United States, few young people refused. We all tried our best in these competitions and tried our best to win the championship.

This kind of hard work is unmatched by the Development League and the NBA preseason.

Especially in this year's summer league, New York's local Metropolitan High School has reached the top eight and has a great hope of winning the championship.

Power forward Thompson is a very comprehensive player, and NBA scouts have already found him.

As long as he goes to college for a year, he can participate in the nab draft. (The nba stipulates that high school students cannot directly participate in the nba draft, and must study for a year in college or something.)

The player template that many scouts gave Thompson was LeBron James. Can break through the ball to attract double-teams, have a mid-range shot with good accuracy, and can pass the ball to organize offenses. It can be said that the evaluation of Thompson is quite high. Thompson has a promising future now, much better than his stepfather who only won one best sixth man in his career.

Manufacturers of basketball shoes are ready to act first after Thompson wins the championship and MVP, and sign an endorsement contract with him. Even if they can't enter the NBA until next year, and they have to pay a year's endorsement fee for nothing, some manufacturers are willing to do so. If you sign with Thompson now, it will definitely be much cheaper than signing after Thompson becomes more and more famous in the future. Even wasting a year's worth of the contract is worth it.

Because a local high school in New York has reached the quarterfinals and has a chance to win the championship. A considerable number of fans in New York came to support the Met High School game. After all, if you can win the summer league championship, that is also a championship! It's better than the Knicks' one-round playoffs, two-round playoffs, or even not making the playoffs at all!

So Madison Gardens, a stadium that can accommodate more than 18,000 people, has a very high attendance rate today. Although it was only the quarter-finals of the high school league, there was at least 80% of the attendance. Almost 15,000 fans packed the entire stadium to the brim.

This once again reflects the spending power of New York fans. They are willing to pay to watch even high school sports. Of course, that's partly because there are no other important sports in New York City today. Neither baseball nor football are scheduled to play this weekend.

So many fans and sports enthusiasts choose to watch high school football games to pass the weekend.

Li Jie, who was sitting on the sidelines, glanced at Peter and Harry next to him, pointed to the front and said, "Look, the man in the first two rows of us seems to be the assistant coach of the Knicks. I saw him on TV. Man, he came to Thompson's game, too."

"I heard that the Knicks have talked to Thompson. They want Thompson to go to NYU for a year, and then the Knicks will take him in the next year's draft. The Knicks have a third pick in the first round. If Thompson really listens to the advice of the Knicks, he will be able to get a No. 3 pick in the NBA next year when he lands in the NBA." Peter glanced at the Knicks assistant coach in front of him and said to the two.

It seems that after reconciling with Thompson, his relationship with Thompson has become more harmonious. Even Thompson told Peter about this kind of thing.

Today, the match against Metropolitan High School is the old high school strong team, the Oak High School basketball team. The Metropolitan High School is a rising star team that has never won a championship. And Oak High School is a veteran team that has won many championships in history and has trained many outstanding NBA players.

The game was very intense from the very beginning. Metropolitan High School is playing the usual run-and-gun tactics in the league, fast-paced and high-scoring. This makes the Met high school game extremely entertaining.

And Oak High School is a textbook-like positional warfare. Because high school players are not NBA players after all, the running and bombing tactics have relatively high requirements for team players. Although the score is high and the viewing is strong, it is also prone to various mistakes because the rhythm is too fast.

What Oak High School wants is absolute victory rather than simple viewing. So they'd rather play the full 30 seconds per quarter (30 seconds per shot in high school and college, not 24 seconds in the NBA). Playing the whole game ugly and unwilling to speed up the pace.

This style of play is a bit of a drag on the rhythm of the game at the Met High School. Since the center jumper win, the Met has opened with a fast-break score.

The rest of the time was disrupted by Oak High's full-court press. After the entire first quarter, the score of the two teams was 23 to 18. The Mets trailed by five points. This slow-paced offense was extremely ugly, and the fans booed Oak High School.

But the coach of the opposing team doesn't care, as long as they can win, what does it matter if they play ugly?

"Come on Thompson! Beat those guys! Come on with the momentum you used to beat me!" Peter and the others were seated in the fifth row, and the players from Metropolitan High School could hear him yelling at Thompson.

This time, in addition to ordinary fans, there were also many students from Metropolitan High School who came to watch the game. Everyone supports their school team. Peter's yelling inspired many other students to cheer and cheer.

Before the start of the second quarter, the entire arena began to cheer loudly. Maybe it was the cheering voices from the classmates that started to make the Metropolitan High School team, which was a little lost, find its way.

Thompson, who was not in any form in the first quarter, began to show off. At the beginning of the game, he used his sharp breakthrough to attract the opponent's double-team, but the corner three-point line was missed by the defense. Thompson tricked the two defenders into jumping together with a beautiful fake.

He's a teammate who throws a post-up pass to the corner three-point line. Swish! The water splashes and hollows into the net. A very nice three points.

Thompson has been unstoppable since the first good pass. A three-step layup drew a foul just a minute and a half into the second quarter. Played a two plus one.

After that, Thompson was like a godsend, mid-range shots, breakthroughs, slam dunks and post-up singles. Anyway, it feels hot no matter how you play. The team's coach also saw that Thompson was starting to feel hot and convulsive now.

So Thompson was directly assigned unlimited shots, and the whole team surrounded him as the core offensive point. As long as the opponent dares to double-team Thompson, it will definitely miss someone. Thompson is a passing power forward with great vision. As long as Thompson is double-teamed, he will definitely pass and assist.

Without double-teaming Thompson, no one at Oaks could defend him one-on-one. Thompson can use his body to fight against a small man, and he can just pull out to make a mid-range shot against a big man. In the second quarter alone, Thompson scored 19 points, five rebounds, and five assists alone. Detonated the enthusiasm of the fans.

And the assistant coach of the Knicks looked at it and nodded frequently. With a little training, such outstanding players can become the core of the Knicks' reconstruction in a year or two.

By the second half of the third quarter, the score had become 65 to 55, and Metropolitan High School had overtaken by 10 points. The coach replaced Thompson for twenty-five minutes, gave him a break, and put on a substitute.

When Thompson was off the court, he had already scored 27 points, 8 rebounds, and 7 assists. And the game time is still enough for him to hit a triple-double.

When the competition was not so intense, Li Jie glanced at Peter who had just cheered for the school team, but his voice was almost hoarse and asked, "Do you two want a drink? I'm going to buy some."

Harry: "Sprite, thank you!"

Peter said in a hoarse voice: "Gatorade, thank you. I feel that cheering on the sidelines is more tiring than playing on the court by myself."

Li Jie walked out of the auditorium helplessly, and went to buy drinks from the vending machines in the empty passageway outside the venue. And just as Li Jie left the auditorium, a girl who had been observing Li Jie from a long distance also walked out of the auditorium following Li Jie's footsteps. She is Roland who the night watchman has been helping the captain secretly protect.

And today, as the Metropolitan High School team's game, she was also pulled by her friends to cheer for the school team. Roland could see Li Jie from a distance in the auditorium. Or to be more precise, it is the timeline that is like a cobweb in Li Jie's head.

When Li Jie was tossing coins to buy Sprite Coke and Gatorade, the girl named Roland suddenly walked up to Li Jie and said, "Jason Lee, you are one of the people who were sent to secretly protect me. Is it? Also a masked hero."

Roland spoke softly, but Li Jie was startled by what he said: "What did you say?"

"Don't be surprised, Captain Rogers will let you protect me secretly, I believe you are a reliable person. And I am protected by them, don't you wonder why they want you to protect me?" Roland said to himself , completely ignoring whether Li Jie was listening to her: "If I say that there will be a huge and terrible accident in today's game, do you think you can believe me?"

Roland looked at Li Jie sincerely with both eyes, and the two of them simply looked at each other in the passage corridor of the five people. Li Jie felt that he must be crazy, or his ears were broken.

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